I just got an ad for optimizing At Home Ops I was expecting like... Selfhost datadog or something but apparently this is what we call chores now 😫😫😫

The Alters is mechanically compact and has some intriguing themes but ultimately I was expecting a twist ending that never came which left it fairly unsatisfying and with a lot of plot holes not even attempted to be arm waved away. A good 20hr AA romp but oooft the game it could have been 😞

I started The Alters this morning and it's now after 11pm. I'm so impatient I kinda want to look up what the actual plot is and see if my theories are right. This one has the sauce. Some really intriguing themes. Lots of "mom death" stuff that I'm struggling with a bit tbh

Just gonna say this again for games sphere cus we get the same question: Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends. Make. Friends.

The whole point of Docker was to ensure portability and abstract away the "works on my machine" shi. So it's lovely to see that the AI gold rush era has thrown all that out the window and just made every project a house of cards dependencies and if it doesn't work, hey fuck you get gud

The spirit of christmas. A good beer and presents for babies

it's Christmas day could we stop with the AI bullshit headlines for ONE FUCKING DAY. World models aren't going to do shit and I'm over my entire fucking career being incinerated by these cunts

I've made three different soups today so I'm feeling truly accomplished. Also nicely working ahead on tomorrow's feastings

Anyone know of a good walkthrough on realtime client/server netcode for Unity? Its an area I know precious little about and probably ought to sharpen up on

I drove a good 600 miles in the past week using Ford's Blue Cruise system (1,200 miles total drive 😬) and I'm 100% a convert. Cant wait to buy a car with this tech (I was driving a rental cos compact EV didn't seem great for going to the desert)

I really don't think I get enough credit for how much I have to bite my tongue whenever there is AI discourse. Like the stories I could tell y'all. And genuinely some of them are so good and wholesome. People trying to do the right thing in a fucked up system. But also the other type too 😅

Prob fake but still, there is just something deeply value-sick happening here. the idea that the value of an activity is entirely in the product has truly relinquished all of human experience to capital. If you can’t sell the act of coloring, therefore the colored image must be where the value lies

The layers, the precision, the intentionality of Blue Prince are what make it. There's so much happening and every part of it for very very explicit reasons. GenAI can never pull this off. Literally no chance it ever will.

Hey folks! I've got a new D&D home game coming together that I'm going to homebrew a setting for and I would LOVE to bring in an artist to help build concept type images to bring the world to life I don't have megabucks to throw at this but it would be paid. Please shout if you're open to a chat!

Lttp but Dispatch is rather good eh?!? I've been making my way through Outer Worlds 2 which was fine I guess. I feel like the first one nailed a tongue in cheek satire and knew how to wink about how silly it was while this one was just a little too ernest with it?

Reasonably happy with the evening's excursion

What the actual fuck are we even doing? techcrunch.com/2025/12/08/c...

Today was a big review meeting at work. 5 things on the table. I wanted at least two of them to go in my favor. All 5 did. Another personnel thing landed exactly how I needed it to and I got discharged for having regular checkups with my urologist! Don't get many days like this! 🥳

Whole bunch of people who rail about how capitalist and developer-hostile GDC is seem pretty cool with that whole vibe as soon they get to see videos of new games alongside it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think some people think The Game Awards are more important than they are because they called it “The Game Awards” it’s just called that it’s a sponsored award show started by a journalist/presenter in 2014, it’s not the industries highest honour

BizOps. Oh you had a thousand and one contractors and vendors supporting that game? Someone was hustling behind the scenes to get all of that paperwork squared away and they barely got a thank you for it

disney sells 200+ intellectual properties to openai for negative one billion dollars

Remember the old days when failed politicians had the decency to write a memoir and then just fuck off?

A thing that surprises me is how much sway The Game Awards has because members of the games media choose to give it that power, even as they complain about it. It’s a for-profit advertising event! If you don’t continue to act as if it has the cultural cache of the Oscars, it won’t!

Now do over 16s

We're choosing violence tonight.

Today I finally sat down and swapped out my various Amazon Alexa devices for a set of Home Assistant Voice Preview units which feels like a big step forward!

I did a podcast interview last month in an Official Capacity and every time I remember this I have an absolute panic attack. Hopeful that when it's edited I come off so fucking boring that nobody watches it 😅😬

Two in a row. The boy's on a loser spree

Well it's too early for this much stupidity

Such a good night at a brand new in-person D&D game with a whole bunch of strangers who are now friends! Love how this game brings people together ❤️

I've been running my own music streaming service using Navidrome as a server component in my home lab and it's worked great. Amperfy as my ios-based player is also aces. (This also maybe only works cos I'm the kind of neurospicy that listens to one album on repeat for 3 months then finds a new one)

Little one is getting her snuggles in still

Fuck - and I cannot stress this enough - oooofffffff

If you could pick one person to see speak at a conference, who would it be and why? Let us know down in the comments!

ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦

I've spent most of the week fucking around with D&D stuff and running sessions and it's been the most relaxing restorative thing I've done in forever. I think I need to take another run at making Pro DMing a real thing for me cos ooooft I'm so much happier doing this

Very happy with today's D&D session and starting to get biometrics that actually D&D is truly good for my mental health. Session today was 11-3

If we've learned anything from corporate grifts & failures, it's that the boy who pointed out that the emperor was naked would've been hanged before anyone admitted any wrongdoing. The emperor would slowly begin wearing clothes again, claiming the old clothes just werent the right market fit.

Reminder that using LaTeX to format your document and throwing it up on Arxiv as a "preprint" does not make your paper peer reviewed research. Arxiv being weaponized to launder press releases to resemble legitimate research is something that the scientific community as a whole needs to respond to.

Every time I give some "N ways ChatGPT has improved my life" type articles I always regret it. But I keep poking the sore tooth anyway. Today was all about how to use ChatGPT Scheduled Tasks. Literally for reminders. YOUR PHONE HAS BEEN ABLE TO DO THAT SHIT FOR OVER A DECADE

These are definitely all of a specific era... Dunno what that says about me

X vs TIE has to be in there somewhere but this is remarkably accurate

Finding out that a hotel I'm intending to stay at is next door to a restaurant from a favorite celebrity chef 🥳🥳🥳🥳 Finding out this celebrity chef has literally no options or accomodations for gluten free 😭😭😭😭

A day of cooking and D&D prep

Just saw a local reddit post asking about driving time for a long drive. The person had asked ChatGPT and Gemini and gotten wildly different answers and were confused as a result. GOOGLE MAPS IS RIGHT THERE ARE YOU FUCKING HIGH????? Our entire species is deservedly cooked.

Sometimes the internet is good actually! Went from a reddit post where someone was asking about local D&D, to there being a little discord for a few of us, to having a plan for me to DM an inperson one shot to see how we vibe in ~48hrs!

Just saw a local reddit post asking about driving time for a long drive. The person had asked ChatGPT and Gemini and gotten wildly different answers and were confused as a result. GOOGLE MAPS IS RIGHT THERE ARE YOU FUCKING HIGH????? Our entire species is deservedly cooked.

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.